Do you have names for your Inverts

If so what and why.

Here are mine

They all have funny names
Coco- Coz her bum was all i saw for a while and it looked like a little hairy coconut.
Smithy- coz it is a smithi lol
Tiny - coz it will be huge
Bum- coz of red rump
Heather - coz of wonky leg (heather McCartney)


ones coming i already have names for

Pugwash- Coz it is a seemani ( seaman )
Vegas - coz in the pic the Emilia looks short fat and hairy like Johnny Vegas
Petal - coz its a rosea (rose)
eeek - coz it is a surprse from Peter and that is a surprised noise

ooooooooo and when i get the scorps they are gunna be

Hammond, Clarkson and May - after the top gear crew

None of mine have names now tbh lol.
Except my haplos Speedy and Gonzali lmao

At the moment they do, but I'm sure eventually I will have too many

G. rosea is Octavia because she had 8 legs (although she now only has 7!)
B. boehmei is Isabella to carry on the Shakespearian/Mexican theme
GBB is Webster, because it likes to make webs lol
A. avicularia is Boots because it has little pink feet
A. geniculata is Genie (from geniculata)
A. metallica is Sparky (metal = sparks)
G. aureostriata is Sylvi after the person who gave it to me
E. campestratus is Digger because it makes massive burrows
B. smithi I am getting Saturday is already called Myrtle
H. lividum coming Thursday - no name yet but it'll probably be a rude name if it gives me trouble when I'm tubbing it up.

My mantids don't have names at the moment.

My first spider was named Ophira, she's an aureostriata and Ophira is the greek word for gold But i never call her it or even label her tank with it.

I do however have a B. smithi called Delia.......

All of my tanks are labelled up with the common and proper names for the species. Good god it would look awful if i had thier pet names written on there too

I try to name them, but I forget their names... So no, not really.

Except my auriostriata, called Chico.

B.smithi= Arianwyn
Nhandu coloratovillosus=Pandora
B.emilia= Emilia (i know, inventive, right lol)

I've got so many that naming them all would take me a weekend and a baby names book!
I only have three named which are:

Brachypelma albopilosum - Chris
She was one of my first spiders from Shaz at Bug Nation and she was already called Chris before I got her so the name stuck. I thought I would have to change the name to something feminine, but Chris is a females name too.

Brachypelma verdezi - Grey
Brachypelma smithi - Adele

I don't really have name labels on their tanks; I have come up with a code convention so I can tell the species and their number. E.g. My B. smithi are "BSM1, BSM2 etc...". I keep an electronic record of their scientific name, common name, date of purchase, price, enclosure type, size, moult records, gender, mating notes and the last time they ate.

Alex

bmsonline wrote:I've got so many that naming them all would take me a weekend and a baby names book!
I only have three named which are:

Brachypelma albopilosum - Chris
She was one of my first spiders from Shaz at Bug Nation and she was already called Chris before I got her so the name stuck. I thought I would have to change the name to something feminine, but Chris is a females name too.

Brachypelma verdezi - Grey
Brachypelma smithi - Adele

I don't really have name labels on their tanks; I have come up with a code convention so I can tell the species and their number. E.g. My B. smithi are "BSM1, BSM2 etc...". I keep an electronic record of their scientific name, common name, date of purchase, price, enclosure type, size, moult records, gender, mating notes and the last time they ate.

Alex

you are UBER organised lol. I suppose you have to be when you have that many tho

Mexican red knee - Mini (cuz shes 1cm)

Brazilian white knee - Wincy (Dont ask..)

Goliath bird eater(t.blondi) - Goliath (I just named her as i type that. )

Chilean rose - Ceasar (Probably cuz shes an evil ****er.

Whilst im naming the inverts ill quickly name the other pets..

Hamster - Monkey
2 Goldfish - Jippo and Lips.
Cat - Milly.

1000 Crickets - Bob.

hmmm after finding out that my b emilia is not a b. emilia but a b. boehmei i now have to think of a new name rofl

I have a new little one now thanks to Lisa called Peanut, coz of all the packing peanuts that fell out of box when it arrived.

Teeny wrote:I have a new little one now thanks to Lisa called Peanut, coz of all the packing peanuts that fell out of box when it arrived.

Nice Teeny what species ?

A.Geniculata ( i hope i spelled that right lol)

Teeny wrote:A.Geniculata ( i hope i spelled that right lol)

Aye that is spelt correct.. thats the sling that Lisa gave you?

Thanks god i spelt it pro[erly lol. Yup it was a prezzie from Lisa i owe that bird a pint

Teeny wrote:Thanks god i spelt it pro[erly lol. Yup it was a prezzie from Lisa i owe that bird a pint

Lol nice one, was very nice of Lisa giving you the little one.
Although they are so tiny... I got one from the same sac from Lee and its like 1 cm or less lol.

They were weeny weren't they Peter lol - I heard they are fast growers though.

garlicpickle wrote:They were weeny weren't they Peter lol - I heard they are fast growers though.

Aye mine hasen't mouled so is really teeny weeny lol.
Supposedly 1-2 years until sub/adult..

yes of course!!!

Chile Rose is Tallulah
and my B. albopilosum is called Angelina

I've names for some of my inverts .
P.Cambridgei are called Baron & Earl
P.Pulcher are Debbie & Harry (typically , Debbie looks male and Harry looks Female)
P.Irminia is Shadow (looking for one to call silhouette)
P.Murinus is Archibald (he escaped for 6 days , so looked at cast list for 'The Great Escape')
My 3 C.Crawshayi are named after the 3 furies of Greek mythology 'Alecto' , 'Magaera' and Tisiphon'
and finally my centipede (a Scolopendra sp) Lord Percy Percy , because 'he's' not timid , nice or a ponce (Blackadder II).

B.smithi- Voodoo because its different and she can be pure evil at times
B.albopilosum- Black Magic because of her colour
N.colloratovillosus- Stompy/Pretty was originally Pretty but she makes so much noise when walking around that shes now called Stompy
L.parahybana- Legs because he has very long leggies
A.versicolour- Boots because her feet look like booties :D
G.rosea- Rosie slightly obvious lols
GBB- Bluey again slightly obvious lmao

Thats all the ones i have names for lols

oh my gosh we have soooo many naming them would be a nightmare.

however some have nic names

the g.rosea is rosie
the h.lividums are called big fracktal and little fractal
p.fufilata is fuffles
cyriopagopus schoedti is called snagglepus, simply because it took me ages to get my tongue around it's name!

but none of the scorpions have names... such as the spinifers are too alike to ID without having a really good look.

Mine all have amazing names, they are funky ones like P.Subfusca, M.Balfouri, A.Geniculata, H.Maculata, all really cool names

got me a brazilian blonde i named her blondy, yep i thought of that all by myself good aint it,
and my little peru purple pink toe david because its next to my other avic a goliath pink toe, i know! were do i get it from
the others arnt named too many